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A Tuesday Washington Post poll found that Barry is the front-runner for the Democratic primary, attracting 29 percent of voters, nearly twice as many as his closest competitor.
The British press also reported tension between NATO's closest buddies, President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Isn't labor, with its soft money, seeking to raise the standard of living for those of us with W-2s, the closest thing we have now to a citizens' party?
This 1929 discovery suggested that man’s closest ancestor might have lived in Asia as well as Africa.
The relatively basal and unresolved position of eukaryotes is consistent with the preponderance of single proteins showing different groups of species as closest relative.